Learn how to make extra awesome xaringan presentations with a few new packages

• xaringanthemer
• xaringanExtra
• metathis

that add the extra touches needed to personalize your slides and make them stand out from the crowd.

Garrick is a Scientific Programmer and data scientist at Moffitt Cancer Center where he uses R and Shiny on a daily basis to help accelerate research toward the prevention and cure of cancer. He recently led the JavaScript for Shiny Users workshop at rstudio::conf(2020) where he definitely spent a whole lot of time slidecrafting. You can find him on Twitter at @grrrck or at garrickadenbuie.com.

Included files:

• companion.R
• slides in docs folder

I think I will probably use the babynames package at least once.

I'll use xaringan, ggplot2, babynames and three packages that I've released to GitHub. Use the code chunk below to install all the packages you'll need to follow along.

install.packages("xaringan")
install.packages("babynames")

if (!requireNamespace("devtools", quietly = TRUE)) {
  stop("Please install the devtools package: install.packages('devtools')")
}

devtools::install_github("gadenbuie/xaringanthemer@dev", dependencies = TRUE)
devtools::install_github("gadenbuie/xaringanExtra", dependencies = TRUE)
devtools::install_github("gadenbuie/metathis", dependencies = TRUE)

Note that the dev branch of xaringanthemer is needed at the time of this presentation. I'm currently working on finishing up the next release and plan to subit to CRAN. Some of the features I'll show off here are brand new!